FediForumTM

Notes from the inaugural FediForum, March 2023

/2023-03/

All times given in pacific time.

Tuesday, March 28

Meet and Greet, Venue Orientation, 11:00am to 12:00noon.

Wednesday, March 29

8:00am Welcome and introduction
Speed demo session 1:
Mammoth: for Mastodon, by Shihab Mehboob
A beautiful Mastodon app for the rest of us. Will show the Mammoth app’s onboarding super-simple onboarding flow and power features.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Owncast, by Gabe Kangas
The open source live video server for your events. Broadcast your performances, games, communities, conferences, and more without big tech.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Steampipe, by Jon Udell
Steampipe is an open-source tool that maps APIs to Postgres tables, and visualizes queries on dashboards. We'll look at a set of dashboards based on Mastodon queries.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Bridgy Fed, by Ryan Barrett
Bridgy Fed federates traditional web sites and blogs directly into the fediverse, and back again.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Collaborative agenda creation: bring your session proposals!
9:15-10:00am Session: Steampipe as Mastodon middleware?
Session: Acceptable monetization models in the fediverse (including coops)
Session: Fediverse Trust & Safety: Moderator Needs Assessment Review
Session: Native governance for the open web; what would organising the Fediverse look like?
10:15-11:00am Session: Beyond Mastodon - Exploring the Fediverse
Session: Tools for the Enterprise on the Fediverse
Session: Future of ActivityPub standardization and related subjects with members of the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group
11:15am-12:00noon Session: Math Mesh, A Fediverse PKI
Session: Who is working on / what are options for federated ID verification?
Session: The future of News on the Internet?
Session: Private Posting in the Fediverse: see notes from the other session
12:15-1:00pm Closing

Thursday, March 30

8:00am Welcome and introduction
Speed demo session 2
Flipboard, by Mike McCue
Connect Flipboard to the Fediverse.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Whalebird & Fedistar, by Akira Fukushima
Mastodon, Pleroma and Misskey clients for the desktop. I will introduce typical uses and customization methods for both apps, as well as other unique features. Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Planetary, by Rabble
Peer-to-peer social network with thousands of communities.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
micro.blog, by Manton Reece
Micro.blog is a fediverse blogging platform and social network. We'll demo following Mastodon users and some of the platform differences.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Wordpress ActivityPub plugin, by Matthias Pfefferle
The plugin implements the ActivityPub protocol for your blog, to federate articles/notes and receive reactions from the fediverse.
Demo recording on PeerTube, YouTube.
Collaborative agenda creation: bring your session proposals!
9:15-10:00am Session: Beyond ActivityPub: SSB, Nostr, Bluesky, Farcaster, ..?
Session: Discovery and the Fediverse (algos, curation, interfaces)
Session: Fediverse Trust & Safety: Supporting Moderation at Scale
Session: What if we thought about Fediverse adoption like a startup?
Session: How do we demine what is “native” and what is not to this #openweb reboot. See notes from this session.
10:15-11:00am Session: A developer network for the Fediverse?
Session: Climate Censorship, Activism and Journalism
Session: Enterprise needs (part 2): see part 1 notes
Session: The Twitter API is dead, long live...what?
Session: Ensure Interconnectivity: Establish a common fallback mechanism
11:15am-12:00noon Session: How can companies be good stewards of the Fediverse and help it grow sustainably (for people, projects, & the planet)
Session: DID/SSO Distributed Auth
Session: Private posting and other privacy in the fediverse
Session: Bringing non-techies into the building conversation
Session: indymediaback and native fediverse news, project: see notes from this session.
12:15-1:00pm Closing